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Children's Health Care is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.9), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Routledge.
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ISSN 0273-9615Verify ISSN ↗1532-6888Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Routledge
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health | 182 / 351 | 48th | Q3 |
| Clinical Psychology | 195 / 314 | 38th | Q3 |
| Developmental and Educational Psychology | 256 / 380 | 32nd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1980–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.9.
Children's Health Care is Q3 in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health (rank 182 of 351), Q3 in Clinical Psychology (rank 195 of 314) and Q3 in Developmental and Educational Psychology (rank 256 of 380), by CiteScore 2025.
Children's Health Care is indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 1.9, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 48th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.269, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 45.
Children's Health Care is published by Routledge. Its print ISSN is 0273-9615 and its online ISSN is 1532-6888.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Children's Health Care has an h-index of 62 and a 2-year mean of 0.75 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.9, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #196 of 344 Scopus journals in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health.
Children's Health Care published 30 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 38. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 99 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (58.8%), Türkiye (9.6%) and Canada (3.9%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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